Safari - Sad

[RTSolvalou]

(On windows) Safari used to be a great browser up until about a year ago, 4 was running fine until the new age html started breaking it, then Safari 5 came out, it was worse, fixed some things, broke others but ultimately things were slightly worse, and it also randomly crashed.
Now we have Safari 5.1 which still hasn't addressed the old issues and it crashes all the time over nothing (and added the reader button in an annoying place), it even crashed just after opening it just now. It also can no longer keep up with opening a new tab and immediately typing in a website address, I look up and find it's missing at least 2 w's, sometimes the whole www.

Lastly it also randomly fails to load a webpage, despite loading tons of pages from that website successfully, and when a page fails to load, what do we all do? press F5 to reload the page, only with 5.1 Apple put insome stupid code that replaces the website address in the address bar with a Safari folder directory, so pressing F5 opens up a windows explorer window of that directory... so you have to kill that then F5 again... freaking.

Sad. I liked Safari and swore by it as it was fast and got things done, and I've tried downgrading to 4 but the damage of the newer ones is mostly permanent.
Hope it gets fixed one day, but I'm now going to look at getting a new browser (not Opera, and probably not Firefox)

 

[Submerged]

Any reason for not wanting Opera or Firefox?

I use both, but have currently stuck with Opera for now.

 

[Sage]

I switched to Chrome last week, after using Safari nonstop since the 2003 beta. Problem is that with 5.1 they’ve split each tab into its own process à la Chrome, but they obviously haven’t worked out the kinks.

Chrome is mostly working well for me except that I miss Safari’s built-in PDF viewer and the way it maps the Command+[number] keys.

 

[G36E]

Safari is still good.